Oil filter



July 110, 1923.

R. S. MOORE ET AL OIL FILTER Filed July 14 1920 INVENTORS A TTORNE Y.

Patented July in, 1923. v &

RICHARD S. MOORE AND LEON B. JONES, OF ROCKDALE, TEXAS.

OIL FILTER.

Application filed July 14, 1920. Serial No. 396,077.

To all whom it may concern: inner wall of said body 4 and its outlet end Be it known that we, RICHARD S. Moonn in contact with said wall at a point above and LEON B. JoNEs, citizens of the United the bottom of said body. This arrangement 50 States, residin at Rockdale, in the county of the spout 9 causes water and sediment to of Milam and gtate of Texas, have invented be immediately carried to the bottom of the certain new and useful Improvements in body 4 from -Wl1l.Cll point they may be Oil Filters, of which the following is a quickly removed through the valve 12. A

specification. straining means 10 of any desired type is This invention relates to oil filters for exarranged in the upper end of the spout as 10 tracting sediment and waterfrom the oil. shown to advantage in Fig. 2.

The principal object of the invention is -A feed pipe 11 communicates with the to provide a filter especially adapted for use main body of said filter directly below the with oil stoves to separate extraneous maauxiliary chamber 8 and is adapted to exterials from the oil and to increase its volatend to the stove or other desired point tility and also prevent clogging of the burner where the oil is to be used. valve. In order to permit the water and sediment,

A further object of the invention is to which gravitate to the bottom of said body provide a filter which may be conveniently 4, to be removed a valve 12 is arranged in '65 associated with the source of supply and the bottom of said body. 20 will not unduly encumber the stove or other In use of the device the oil reservoir is apparatus with which it is connected. mounted upon the supporting flange 5, dis- The above and other objects of our inplacement of the reservoir being prevented vention will be in part described and in part by the annulus 6. The oil is permitted to understood from the following description gravitate from said reservoir into the aux- 25 of the present preferred embodiment of the iliary chamber 8 thence through the strainer invention taken in connection with the ac- 10 into the spout 9 and ultimately against coinpanying drawings, wherein: the lower inner wall of the main body 4 Fig. 1, is an elevational view of a filter The oil is then withdrawn when desired constructed in accordance with our inventhrough the feed pipe 11.

30 tion, and Various changes may be made in the de- Fig. 2, is a vertical sectional view of the tails of construction, proportion and arfilter, a portion of the feed pipe being shown rangement of parts as will be permitted by in elevation. the claims appended hereto.

In the drawings in order to illustrate the What we claim is: application of our invention an oil reservoir 1. An oil filter for stoves includinga ta- 8 is shown, in the present instance being pering receptacle the upper marginal edge shown to be of a cylindrical configuration. of which is bentoutwardly at right angles The filter comprises a truncated cone to provide a supporting ledge for supportshaped body 4:, the upper end of which is ing an oil can, a partition formed in said bent out at an angle to provide a horizontal receptacle having its periphery integral w th supporting flange 5, the latter having an anthe upper end of the receptacle and being nulus 6 upstanding therefrom. A semicircudished downwardly into the body of the latlar partition 7 is formed in the upper end ter to provide a basin for primarily reon of the body 4: to provide a hemisphericallyceiving oil dispensed from the oil can, a shaped auxiliary chamber 8. This chamber filter carrying support depending from said has a spout 9 depending from its bottom, artition and discharging against the taperthe spout having its inception adjacent the ng wall of said receptacle, and a feed pipe leading from said receptacledirectly beneath discharge liquids, passing therethrough, 10 said partition to carry off the oil from said against the wall of said body at a point adrecepXacle. 1 fil 1 d h j acent the bottom of the latter.

2. n oi ter incu inv a 'cones aped body having a partition at its upper end which pends downwardly in the body, a I I spout issuing from said partition at a point Witnesses: adjacent from; the periphery of; said body HOMER H, TURNER,

andiextending, downwardly in the latter to MARSHALL J. FLO x5 

